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wove
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Reply #15 on: April 12, 2021, 18:48
My favorite all time Mac was the SE/30 and I ran System 6.0.5 on it. I thought the icons from that era were by far the best and the black and white with dithered grey scale was the easiest work on. I had purchased a Thunder Scanner for an earlier Mac and it worked well on the SE/30 as well. The sensor for the scanner replaced the ink ribbon on an ImageWriter Printer and it of course produced a dithered image. I did do most any image editing/creating I needed to do using HyperCard. In fact HyperCard and ClarisWorks 3 really met all my software needs. |
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #16 on: April 13, 2021, 02:45
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For me it was the IIci that got my attention  I worked with one as well as a Powerbook 165c and they were beautiful Macs. That's around the time I also used America Online to go online, send emails and begin designing websites. It truly was a magical time. No wonder I fell in love with Macs, lol 
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gingerbeardman
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8 MB Posts: 11 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #17 on: April 14, 2021, 21:04
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No worries. I'll try to mark any future https links as such. I've always loved the 1-bit aesthetic, particularly the Macintosh and System 7. I had an Atari ST growing up which had a similar 1-bit monochrome mode. I used Macintosh at University and afterwards when I started work in the late 90s (at a graphic design agency in London). I'd often play around with dithering and various 1-bit effects. I eventually ended up working for Apple as a Technology Evangelist, which has nothing to do with 1-bit graphics other than my boss being an old shool Mac guy and us having similar appreciation for the classiic system. It surprised me how many people working for Apple new zero about its history or anything before iPhone. More recently I'm making a game for the forthcoming Playdate handheld console which also has 1-bit graphics (it's two shades of grey rather than Macintosh's black and white). Anyway, that meant I had real reason to jump back in to 1-bit art. I tried many apps, early Photoshop, SuperPaint and more. Eventually I settled on UltraPaint, which I use on my Macintosh Clasaic with a Wacom ArtPad II. I use emulators and SD2SCSI to make installs and file copies easier, and then one day I wondered if I could run Mini vMac on my iPad, as I was already using the faster iPad to finish my art. Then I got BasiliskII working and I've not turned on my Macintosh Classic in quite some time. I have a bunch of related articles to all of this on my blog (modern browser needed!) https://blog.gingerbeardman.com but you might be able to view it through FrogFind or use the RSS feed? @wove ThunderScan was really cool. You should check out issues of Verbum (journal of personal computer aesthetics) on internet archive as they feature a lot of 1-bit art created with ThunderScan and SuperPaint. (modern browser needed) https://archive.org/details/verbummagazine maybe all https links could be tagged as such by the system? CSS can do it, though not sure if CSS on ancient browsers can do it.
Last Edit: April 15, 2021, 01:08 by gingerbeardman
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gingerbeardman
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8 MB Posts: 11 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #18 on: April 24, 2021, 22:01
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Blog post where I start comparing Macintosh drawing software https://blog.gingerbeardman.com/2021/04/24/macintosh-drawing-software-compared/ you can view through frogfind but it corrupts the table
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #19 on: April 25, 2021, 00:53
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No prob, we just fix it old-school http://images.macintosh.garden/2021/04/24/mac-drawing-software-table.png
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gingerbeardman
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8 MB Posts: 11 System 7 Newcomer!
Reply #20 on: April 25, 2021, 09:39
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Haha, yes! I'll be updating the blog post over time as I discover more apps.
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cballero
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1024 MB Posts: 1176 System 7, today and forever
Reply #21 on: April 25, 2021, 18:44
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This is a blog I'll definitely be reading, just not on System 7  That's a sweet table, but I remember that CSS was not up to speed at all in 68k browsers, so everything had to be the most basic html, so html tables and/or image maps were the way fancy things like that were handled. CSS from what I remember was something that became standard sometime after System 7 had passed. Mac OS 9 definitely fared much better with CSS, but to what extent, I don't really remember.
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